I want to sort with the Order class in a criteria, like:

criteria.addOrder(Order.asc("myColumn"));

But why do I need to enter the string name of the column in a non type-safe way? What if I change the name of that column in my database? I guess its ok to update the hibernate bean but I dont wanna keep track of all those loose strings. Is there any other way then using my own enums?

/Br joynes

If you use your own enum you have to change the enum when you change fieldnames. Somewhere you have to keep the info. We use Constant-Classes for that - generated when generating the entities.

We also generate constants for our column names (and also the associations) so we don't have to hard code the names in the various queries. That way you can rename the constants if you need to and it's way easier to refactor than trying to hunt down a piece of text.

Do you use any automic tool for generation and do you set some parameters to also add theese constants?
Im using annotated hibernate beans that I create manually for each table.

/Br joynes